Grok Deepfaked This UK Politician—Now She’s Taking Elon Musk’s xAI To Court

This interview includes references to sexual assault and child sex abuse.

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WIRED’s Rosie Swash speaks with UK politician Jess Asato about tackling Elon Musk’s xAI after being subject to deepfaking via Grok, xAI’s chatbot. Jess and Rosie also delve into the ‘AI kill switch’ proposal, the specifics of Jess’ court case and the harsh reality of being deepfaked on the internet in 2026.

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I wanted to take you back to the beginning of this year,

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There was widespread reporting of Grok,

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xAI's chatbot, being used to create sexualized images

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and those images being circulated on X.

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How aware were you at this point of the phenomenon

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of deepfakes being used in this way?

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And actually had been working, you know,

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with survivors who had experienced deepfakes

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for quite a number of years, you know,

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ever since the advent of AI, you know,

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And the developing risks of children both

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being, you know, put into child sexual abuse material,

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but also children using nudification tools

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on other children, thereby criminalizing themselves

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because these tools are so easy to access, often free.

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So I was already very alive to the huge harms

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being created by AI deepfakes of both women and children

Original source: https://www.wired.com/

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